N.H. Attorney General holding press conference on Greenland shootings

Tuesday

May 1, 2012 at 9:47 AMMay 1, 2012 at 3:37 PM

CONCORD — State prosecutors have scheduled a Tuesday afternoon press conference to discuss the pending investigation into a fatal shootout between police and a suspected drug dealer in Greenland last month.

By JIM HADDADINjhaddadin@fosters.com

CONCORD — State prosecutors have scheduled a Tuesday afternoon press conference to discuss the pending investigation into a fatal shootout between police and a suspected drug dealer in Greenland last month.

The press conference will take place at 2:30 p.m. at the Attorney General's office on Capitol Street in Concord, according to a message released by Attorney General Michael Delaney Tuesday morning.

“The purpose of the conference is to discuss the review that will be undertaken of the Greenland shooting that claimed the life of Chief Michael Maloney and wounded four Drug Task Force officers,” the message states.

A representative of the Attorney General's office could not immediately be reached for further information Tuesday morning.

Greenland Police Chief Michael Maloney was killed and four officers were wounded in the April 12 drug search at 517 Post Road in Greenland.

Prosecutors have said one of the two targets of the search, 29-year-old Cullen Mutrie, allegedly opened fire on members of the Attorney General's Drug Task Force when they tried to enter his home.

Task force members were attempting to execute two warrants: one to search the property and another to arrest Mutrie's one-time companion, Brittany Tibbetts.

Mutrie and Tibbetts were at the center of a drug investigation, and police were searching for evidence of cocaine and the prescription painkiller oxycodone at Mutrie's residence, according to court documents.

Members of the Attorney General's Drug Task Force were carrying a so-called "no-knock" search warrant when they arrived. The warrant authorized police to enter Mutrie's home at any time, night or day, without knocking on the door or announcing their presence.

Mutrie barricaded himself inside the home with Tibbetts after the shooting broke out. A tense standoff ensued, and police used a robot to enter the home. They found the bodies of Mutrie and Tibbetts in the basement.

The chief medical examiner has ruled their deaths a murder-suicide, indicating that Mutrie killed himself and Tibbetts, a 26-year-old Berwick, Maine, resident, was murdered.

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